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Getting a little tired of Politics , I would be interested in your Story : Here's mine : Many years ago I came across a Remington Double 16 Gauge ... I think it was a Model 1900 . It had been refinished as good as anything I've ever seen . An 85 year old Georgia Quail Hunter made me an offer I could not refuse . The worst memory is ( being a wood nut ) that the Rem. had as nice a Burl Stock as any of the top six I have ever seen in my lifetime , and I have seen a few Parker A1's , Merkels , Purdeys , H & H 's , etc. or maybe it's just my memory making it better every time I think about it .

Marlin 39A, for $60....it was a LONG time ago.

I hate these kinds of threads. Too depressing. Too many I wish I still had.

Ernie

colt python

S&W model 60-4. So I bought me another one.

Guns I should never sold�.Hmmmmmm I don't think this site has enough bandwidth�.

Colt Diamondback

Browning BLR in 308

Browning Citori Micro lightening 20ga

This sucks, i'm swapping threads now.

Colt Lightweight Commander .45ACP that had been worked over by Pachmayr, back when they did custom work on 1911's.

No regrets. Them's got sold got sold for a reason. Most were good shooters, but I look at it from the perspective that I had no passion for them and maybe they are in more appreciative hands.

.257
.30 Carbine
.22 H-Hornet
.358 Win.
.375 H&H
.22 RF (3)
.44 Mag
.357 Mag

Names a few. Not the cartridges, but the platform that I did not care for.

My 6" Colt Python I sold in 1996, I'm still pissed about that. My National Match M1 Garand with Kreiger barrel I sold 2 years ago. Wish I had that one back!!!!

Smoking guns? I should have kept the redhead!

I think about guns I sold about as much as I think about socks I've thrown out.

SKB SxS 12ga.

That's it. All of the others I sold for a good reason, namely to scratch an irresistible itch for another gun and those other guns were exactly what I wanted. Just like I'm doing now to fund the purchase of a Sharps.

Ed

That's so.......exotic.

Good move though. Hope to do that when I grow up.

Got one I should have BOUGHT that I still remember. Was in college around 1970-72 or so and a guy I had classes with needed some money. Had a Winchester 42 .410 he'd had since he was a kid, or a younger kid anyway. Wanted $40. Now at the time $40 was worth more than it is now but that was still a deal. Passed on it, thought it over, and when I saw him again it was gone.

Sold a total of 2 guns in my life. a 270 traded to me for a bobcat mount I did. I didn't and dont care for a 270, best use was to sell and run with the cash to pay bills.

The other was a early Ruger Redhawk. Sold it to finance a SW 329PD. It was WELL worth the trade. The ruger shot well, bulky and heavy. And about that time Bill had recently pissed me off so I was happy to dump a Ruger.

So bottom line, as I tell folks that ask me, want to sell that? Nope, I don't sell, I only buy.

Will be some folks getting some nice gifts as I age though!

S&W 657

Needed the cash and had a good offer

Would love to replace it, but its worth twice what I sold it for now.

Sig 220 Elite, First Marlin Guide Gun, Mini 30

Usull: I seldom sell a gun anymore!
I thank God for the ability to keep all the guns that I want, nowadays.
But that certainly was not always the case during my life.
I litrally wish I had back 10 dozen different Rifles and pistols that I have sold in the past!
But the one I wish the most I had never let go was a BEAUTIFULLY stocked (all factory stock!) pre-64 Winchester Model 70 Supergrade in 458 Winchester (also known as the "African")!
I owned this Rifle long before "we" (Model 70 collectors) had any idea how rare these Rifles were/are!
In fact we now know out of all 581,471 pre-64 Winchester Model 70's produced only 1,226 were in caliber 458 Winchester.
Anyway I recall, to this day, the "measley" $200.00 profit I made by selling that pristine piece - if I had that Rifle back today I could easily multiply that profit by 20 (twenty) times (or over $4,000.00 profit on it today).
Even more important to me, my Model 70 collection is now without an "African"!
Yeah I wish I had never sold that one.
I hope somehow someday that nifty Remington double comes back your way.
Hold into the wind
VarmintGuy